Sémiramis (1746) is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire, first performed in 1748 and published in 1749. Act 1 The plot is very similar to that of Voltaire's...

aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (/vɒlˈtɛər, voʊl-/; also US: /vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French...

found on the Nine Worthies list for women. Semiramis appears in many plays, such as Voltaire's tragedy Sémiramis and Pedro Calderón de la Barca's drama La...

the 1748 tragedy of the same name by Voltaire, which concerns the legendary Queen Semiramis of Babylon. Sémiramis, Catel's first opera, premiered at the...

Semiramis, a minor planet Sémiramis (tragedy), a play by Voltaire Semiramis (band), an Italian progressive rock group Sémiramis (Catel), an 1802 opera by...

Because of her well-known collaboration and romantic involvement with Voltaire, which spanned much of her adult life, for generations du Châtelet has...

Voltaire is a 1933 American pre-Code biographical film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring George Arliss as Voltaire, an 18th-century French writer...

(1817); symphonies, quartets etc. Sémiramis, lyric tragedy in three acts, libretto by Philippe Desriaux based on Voltaire, performed by the Opéra de Paris...

intended to ensure the effect Voltaire sought as with his other scenes of matricide (in Oreste [de; fr] and Sémiramis); not to shock the audience but...

over-involved plot. But his Xerxes (1714) was only performed once and his Sémiramis (1717) was an absolute failure. In 1707 Crébillon had married a penniless...

Irène is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire, and his penultimate play. It was written in 1776–1777 and premiered in Paris on March 16, 1778. Recent scholarship...

Agathocle is the last dramatic tragedy by Voltaire. It was written by the 84-year-old author in 1777 almost simultaneously with the tragedy Irène, only...

Callirhoé (tragédie en musique, 1712), music by Destouches Ariane (1717) Sémiramis (tragédie lyrique, 1718), music by Destouches Les élémens (opéra-ballet...

libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria. The opera was first performed...

King Edward III, William Wallace, Wat Tyler, Roger Bacon, John Milton, Voltaire, as well as Devil, Satan, "Cancer", The Man Who Built the Pyramids, The...

Brutus is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. He began work on the play in 1727 in England and completed it in 1729. It premiered on 11 December 1730 in...

(The Dialogues of Euhemerus) is a little-known philosophical dialogue by Voltaire, published in 1777. At the time of its writing he was 83 years old and...

Raison (‘The Reasonable Wife’), is a verse comedy in three acts written by Voltaire in 1749. The play was first performed in 1749 at a feast in honour of Stanisław...

representations at Newcome's School in Hackney, besides adapting Voltaire's Sémiramis for the stage. Keate also contributed "Observations on some Roman...

Tancrède is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire that premiered on 3 September 1760. The character names Tancrède and Aménaïde are taken from Torquato Tasso's...

title: La Mérope Française) is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. The text is a reworking by Voltaire of the Italian tragedy Merope (1713) by Scipione Maffei...

or broken on the wheel". It was during this period that she first read Voltaire and the other philosophes of the French Enlightenment. As she learned Russian...

Artémire was Voltaire's second tragedy in five acts. When it failed at its premiere on February 15 1720 at the Comédie-Française, Voltaire withdrew it...

1776, he produced at Drury Lane Theatre a play, a version of the Semiramis of Voltaire, Richard Yates representing the chief character; an epilogue was...

Written in the form of a novel, the book deals with the life and love of Voltaire and his mistress, scientist Émilie du Châtelet. It also discusses the theories...

couplets, Indolence (1772). Her proposed translation of Voltaire's heroic tragedy Sémiramis (1746) never materialized. Celesia was praised by Mary Scott...

individual arias have survived. The story of Semiramis was the subject of plays by Crébillon, Voltaire and Calderon de la Barca as well as of other operas...

and Heyman 1759, p. 389 & p. 390 at Google Books) 1763: Voltaire, The Works of M. de Voltaire: Additions to the essay on general history: The same may...

a libretto by Rossi based on a play by Voltaire, but shows the Babylonian queen (known in English as 'Semiramis') at an early part of her life, rather...

Chesterfield's) Illustrated George Edward Ayscough (adapted from Voltaire) – Semiramis Hannah Cowley – The Runaway Samuel Foote – The Bankrupt Johann Wolfgang...